Rousseau: "[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself.
I [imagined I was] one of the characters [and soon found myself] in made-up circumstances which were most agreeable to my inclinations."

Rousseau: "Reason is greatly indebted to passion. The human race would long since have ceased to be,
had its preservation depended only on reason."

Kierkegaard: "To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous."

Kierkegaard: "Whatever you do, never lose your fondness of walking. I walk
myself into my daily well-being, and I walk out of all illness. I have walked myself into my best
thoughts, and I know of no thought so heavy that one cannot outwalk it."

Alan Sandage: "Physicists, by and large, are Platonists who seek reality in
the archetypes behind the scenes. Non-scientists, by and large, are Kierkegaardians for whom the subjectivity of life and
thought is more real than scientific models."

Camus: "We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile.
And now we realize that we know where it lives: Inside ourselves."

Camus: "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."

Camus: "To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."

Paul Gallagher: "While Sartre could separate the world of ideas from his
personal friendship, Camus ... believed friendship was essential [and] united people together in the struggle for a better world."

Orwell: "I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and
holding conversations with imaginary persons."

Orwell: "From ... the age of five or six, I knew that
when I grew up I should be a writer. ... I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness
that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to
settle down and write books."

Orwell: "What I have most wanted to do ... is to make political
writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a
sense of injustice."

Orwell: "Politically I would describe myself as a 'conservative Trotskist.'"

Woolf: "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

INFP

John Kerry

U.S. Secretary of State (D) and Vietnam war veteran

Kerry: "There's a time ... to be totally in quiet listening
mode when somebody else's mind is open to you."

[When asked why he threw his Vietnam war medals into a river:]
Kerry: "[Never] start a war. ... The USA should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by
that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest."

Peggy Kerry: "Once you get to know him [he] is really a warm
and open and funny human being."

Jonathan Winer: "[No one] can tell him what to do. You can
suggest it, and maybe he'll do it and maybe he won't. But he is not going to
surrender that personal autonomy that is the core of [his] integrity."

Nixon White House memo [ca. 1971]: "Destroy him
before he becomes another Ralph Nader."

Milne: "Even now when I see my name in the paper, I feel that the world is intruding unduly on my privacy.
I ought to be anonymous."

Milne: "Sarcasm, directed into the blue in the hope of hitting the person you want, may not be effective,
but it does relieve the feelings."

Milne: "There are people who keep thermometers shut up indoors, which is both cruel and unnecessary.
When you complain that the library is a little chilly ... they look at the thermometer ... and say,
'Oh no; I don't think so. It's sixty-five.' As if anybody wanted a thermometer to know if a room were cold or not."

Watterson: "[Doing everything myself] kept the strip very honest and personal - everything having to do with Calvin and Hobbes expressed my own ideas,
my own values, my own way."

Watterson: "I was not prepared for the ... attention [that comes with being famous]. ... Besides disliking the diminishment
of privacy and the inhibiting quality of feeling watched. ... I didn't see how I could write honestly without [seclusion]."

Kafka [to his lover:] "In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself."

Kafka: "We [humans] are as forlorn as children lost in the woods."

Kafka: "[People are] quite different. What grips me need hardly touch you at all. ... What
is innocence in you may be guilt in me. ... What has no consequences for you may be the last nail in my coffin."

Kafka: "[Growing up, my father asserted] that I had no business sense, that I had lofty ideas in my
head, and the like."

Kafka: "You do not need to leave your room. ... Simply ... be quiet [and] the world
will freely offer itself to you. ... It has no choice."

INFP

Edgar Allan Poe

Poet and author

Poe: "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Poe: "All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream."

Poe: "Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."

Poe: "With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

James Oppenheim: "Everything about him suggests introversion, self-immersion, mood, mystery. Everything
suggests a man seeking his own soul."

INFPs in popular culture

INFP

John Lennon

Singer-songwriter

Lennon: "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."

Lennon: "Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? ... I can't be mad because nobody's put me away;
therefore I'm a genius. ... If there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care."

Lennon: "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

Lennon: "Supposedly [schools] don't want artists. Even in art school, they tried to turn me into a teacher. They try to discourage you from painting."

Lennon: "I was very keen on Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland.'"

Lennon: "If you play with the same person all the time ... it comes to a time when you know every move and
you have to find somebody else to play with."

Paul McCartney: "We all looked up to John. He was ... very much the leader; he was ... the
smartest and all that kind of thing."

INFP

Jim Morrison

(The Doors)

Morrison: "When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we
really are. ... The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces."

Morrison: "[In society] you trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your senses for an act. You
give up your ability to feel and in exchange, put on a mask."

Morrison: "There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level.
It's got to happen inside first."

INFP

Kurt Cobain

(Nirvana)

Cobain: "I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of
the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid."

Cobain: "[My youth] gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male."

Cobain: "I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience.
I know they're out there and it really bothers me."

Cobain: "I just can't believe anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be
cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it."

INFP

Ian Curtis

(Joy Division)

Curtis: "I prefer to think of everyone as an individual."

Curtis: "I like to think that [Joy Division doesn't] belong to any category."

Len Brown: "Tributes paint Curtis as a lost prophet; as [someone] more sensitive, braver,
and perhaps closer to God or godlessness than the rest of us; as if he'd held up his cracked mirror to show
us how hopeless, meaningless and inhuman our world had become."

INFP

Robert Smith

(The Cure)

Smith: "My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a
machine or a business is just horrible."

Smith: "If I thought I was a role model, I'd kill myself."

Smith: "All punk means to me is: Not compromising and not doing things that you don't want to do."

Smith: "[When I read Kafka] for the first time, the narrator's voice was mine.
I was the narrator. ... I read and read again all of his books."

Burton: "I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those
words for me is very personal and subjective."

Burton: "One person's craziness is another person's reality."

Burton: "I always liked strange characters."

Chloe Grace Moretz: "The thing with him is that he really just
focuses on his actors. If the actor says, 'No, I don't feel that's right for the character,' then he takes that
so seriously - and not many directors do that in the same way."

INFP

Johnny Depp

Actor

Depp: "The characters I've played, that I've responded to, there has been a lost-soul quality to them."

Depp: "If there's any message to my work, it is ... that it's okay to be different."

Depp: "[In my career] I am doing things that are true to me."

Depp: "People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by ...
what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people."

Cage: "My imagination was my savior [in my childhood]. I was able to imagine things weren't bad, or
I could go in the backyard and transform myself into an astronaut or some [other] character and play for hours."

Cage: "When people tell me I can't do something, I've always been compelled to do it."

INFP

Florence Welch

(Florence and the Machine)

Welch: "I was always that girl growing up who you could find dancing down supermarket aisles.
It's that sense of not feeling inhibited. Dancing in supermarkets is my favorite thing."

Welch: "Love is horrible. ... When you're in love, it's like a sickness. Such madness."

Welch: "[I] always want things to be perfect, magical or exciting. Things can't be that way all the time so
I'm constantly disappointed as well."

INFP

Bjork

Singer-songwriter

Bjork: "I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around."

[To an interviewer:]
Bjork: "I've looked in my [diaries] and I only get angry once every seven years [so] you're safe tonight."

INFP

Tori Amos

Singer-songwriter

Amos: "I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul.
Dive deep into your soul and explore it."

Apple: "[I didn't like the fact that representatives from Sony Music wanted to okay my tracks because]
then they're in on the songwriting. And if I start doing that, then I'm dead."

Apple's 'dying' from not having final say is the same as that of David Lynch: "I
couldn't and wouldn't work in a studio if I didn't have final cut..."

INFP

Jarvis Cocker

(Pulp)

Cocker: "It's ok to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old."

Cocker: "[I've] always been a bit out of touch with reality."

Cocker: "I think I'm getting more male as I'm getting older."

INFP

Thom Yorke

(Radiohead)

Yorke: "The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't
normally given voice to."

Yorke: "The West cannot shake its need to control the rest of the
planet in any way it can. They cannot shake off this colonial attitude."

Yorke: "The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite
happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and he's very good at it, but I just can't do it. ...
In a way it would help if I could, but I just can't. I admire the fact that Bono can, and can walk away from
it smelling of roses."

INFP

Morrissey

Singer-songwriter

Morrissey: "Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine
how you live your life!"

Morrissey: "I'm lying in my bed and I think about life and I think about death and neither one
particularly appeals to me."

Lynch: "It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings. ... Because the meaning is a very
personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for someone else."

Lynch: "All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them.
That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds."

Lynch: "I couldn't and wouldn't work in a studio if I didn't have final cut. ... How
could anyone do that? Absolutely pure suicide. Sadness. Ridiculousness. ... Never in a million years.
A person's voice is what's critical."

Lynch: "Spielberg is a very lucky human being, because
the things he likes, millions and millions of people like. The things I like, maybe thousands and thousands of people like."

INFP

Terrence Malick

Filmmaker

Malick: "What I find patronizing is people ... stacking
the deck for [other people], not respecting their integrity, their difference."

Malick: "When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't
make them laughable; it's something tender about them."

Law: "I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it
because it takes away from what I am."

Law: "I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed."

Law: "It's a bit of a minefield being 20 because you've got all these aspirations and ideals. Well,
I had."

Law: "I've always liked what Thomas More said in 'Utopia':
... Every person is allowed their own lifestyle ... but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox
and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant."

[Asked if he was ready for his life to change:]
Pattinson: "I'm always ready for my life to change. I'm always waiting for it to change."

Pattinson: "I have a romantic soul."

Pattinson: "[Kristen Stewart] will decide [what she thinks of] someone a lot
quicker [than I will]. ... She's like, 'You're an idiot and I don't want to talk to you,' [whereas] I'm like,
'I'm an idiot too!' So I'll talk to an idiot for days before deciding."

INFP

Heath Ledger

Actor

Ledger: "People always feel compelled to sum you up, to presume that they have you and can describe you. ...
There are many stories inside of me ... outside of [that] one flat note."

Ledger: "I take great pride in my soul and the consistency and longevity of my love."

Wasikowska: "I definitely identify with [the characters I've played], and I really love them
for the certain amount of outsider-ness about them."

[Asked about her hobby of photography:]
Wasikowska: "[With acting] you are relying on and waiting on other people. ... To have [another outlet] that I have full
creative control over is really very therapeutic."

Wasikowska: "[I hated drama class] because it felt like ... it was for the loud, outgoing
kids. ... But I don't think acting is really about that."

Mayer: "It's not really hard to be expository on stage or to be shameless about how I
feel ... because that's the way I am in life."

[On dating Jennifer Aniston:]
Mayer: "I [knew I'd become so famous] I'd have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility
that lives in your heart ... [is so] different [from] everything else that you have to pursue it."

Mayer: "[I'm] vulnerable and goofy and dopey."

Mayer: "I want to show [women] I'm not like every other guy. Because I hate other men."

Blake Guthrie: "Mayer has a childlike lucidity about him, as if he never outgrew the candor and
wonder that comes with being 12 years old."

Bellamy: "Decisions which result in human suffering should never have empathy removed from the
equation. ... Those ... who lack empathy should not be permitted to have any power."

Bellamy: "Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed.
But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world."

Bellamy: "I tend to be a bit quiet, a touch avoidant. ... I never dreamed about being in a limo
or being backstage with loads of girls. I only visualized playing very well and enjoying it."

Stephen Fry: "I think I'm rather more of a lion, circa 20 or 30
AD, when Christians were in plentiful supply. I've always thought of Hugh as a panda, probably because he's
not naturally aggressive."

The Guardian: "[He is given] to long answers that deviate from the question and frequently
end with him asking questions of himself."

Anthony Bunko: "[Spending time alone] led [the young Laurie] to develop a vivid fantasy
life, which he says made it extremely easy to imagine himself in other lives. It's something which still
accompanies him today and he says he doesn't know what he would do without it."

Louis C.K.: "With movies, [what] I really loved [was] moments and tones and feelings in a
scene, and I loved creating those."

Louis C.K.: "I never viewed money as being 'my money,' I always saw it as 'the money.' ...
If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system."

Louis C.K.: "There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really
easy to say, ... 'You're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What
is this person like and how do they really think?'"

Louis C.K.: "When I read [that] the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like:
'Maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.'"

Stephen Deusner: "[He has a] genial stage presence, and a starkly honest style that blends relentless
self-deprecation with a genuine sense of wonder at the world."

INFP

Stephen Colbert

Host of 'The Colbert Report'

Colbert: "I just want to do things that scratch an itch for me. That itch is often something that
feels wrong."

Colbert: "I really like people, but [I also have] a deep discomfort with being in society."

Colbert: "Damaged people are very interesting."

Colbert: "Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics
don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world."

Jon Stewart: "He's able to create [his own] universe. ...
Somehow he has managed to create a fake world that has impacted and found standing in the real world."

Teller: "I live in my own little world ... hoping
that every once in while, something really beautiful will gleam out like a penny in the sand. ... That's what I live for."

Teller: "My love of gothic ideas ... seems inborn; I loved
Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and Poe's short stories
from the first page of them I turned."

Teller: "As a kid ... I cared about the dark side of things. I had no interest in comedy, I
still don't. That's more Penn's thing."

Teller: "The thing I dislike most in magic is piracy. I know how many years can go into one
beautiful idea. And to see somebody simply lift that idea (invariably doing it badly or insincerely) makes my blood boil."

Time Out: "[Penn and Teller] appear utterly incompatible: the tall
shouty one who thinks and laughs; the small quiet one who feels and cries."

INFP

Marlon Brando

Actor

Brando: "I am myself, and if I have to hit my head against a brick wall to remain myself, I will do it."

Brando: "I have always had an unwavering curiosity about people - what they feel ... how they're motivated. ... I have
always made it my business to find out. ... I am endlessly absorbed by human motivations."

Brando: "[I'm] determined to know ... [the] quirks that people [have]. I have tried to ... [learn]
their potential for loving, for hating ... how they were truly constituted."

Brando: "The military ... [wants] the same predictability in a man as they do in a telephone or a machine gun. ... To regiment
people - to make them march in step, all in uniform ... [is] nauseating to me."

Truman Capote: "In the company of children [Brando is] at ease, playful, appreciative ... a co-conspirator."

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